“Damages: Bill Clinton’s Legal Mess.” In Monday’s edition of The New York Times, Janet Maslin will have this review of law professor Ken Gormley‘s new book, “The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr.”

Additional reviews of the book have recently appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

“‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality.”

And Anime News Network reports that “Christopher Handley Sentenced to 6 Months for ‘Obscene’ Manga.”

“Juror regrets racy candy that fed killer’s appeal; U.S. Supreme Court orders new look into 1993 rape-murder trial”: In yesterday’s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bill Torpy and Bill Rankin had an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court had two options: Let killer Marcus Wellons’ execution go forward or try to get to the bottom of a bizarre episode in American jurisprudence.”

“Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to Lecture at YLS Feb. 15-16”: Yale Law School has issued this news release.

“Justice Dept. defends warrantless cell phone tracking”: Declan McCullagh of CNET News has this report.

My earlier coverage appears here.